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K writes:
| kitey writes
|
| I have just moved into a new house that has a badly water logged
| garden, due to it being a clay soil.
|
| I have just replaced the boiler which has left me with 2 1m3 cold
| water tanks.
|
| My question is, if I bury these tanks upside down in the garden,with
| 6-12" of soil on top, what area of grden would each tank drain.
|
| Not much more than 1 sq m unless you have a system of drains channelling
| the water into the tanks.

And not for long if you do! The excess of rainfall over evaporation
in the UK varies between c. 25 cm and c. 1m (in inhabited areas).
There would need to be some way for those tanks to drain to a local
river.

| 6-12 inches of soil is not a great deal, especially if we get a hot
| summer. You would have problems with dry soil on that area.

Indeed.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.